Three activists overturned a statue of a Polish priest accused of sex abuse in the northern city of Gdansk early Thursday, local police said.
Video footage on social media showed the men use a rope to topple the statue of Father Henryk Jankowski, who died in 2010 and has faced accusations of paedophilia.
On the fallen statue the men placed underwear and altar boy clothing in reference to the priest's alleged victims.
Jankowski has faced renewed claims of child abuse since the liberal Gazeta Wyborcza daily published an article late last year reviving previous accusations that first surfaced years ago.
"They were detained around 3 am and taken in for questioning," Gdansk police spokeswoman Karina Kaminska told AFP, referring to the three activists
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